04x23 - Passage to Helena

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Next, The Fugitive, in color.

Are you getting tired, deputy?

Oh, Helena’s only about miles

- Might as well be , for you.
- Come on.

When did you become
a buddy of his?

Dalton,
you got a real prize package here.

This here is Richard Kimble,
the man who k*lled his wife.

Get moving.

- What was the point of that?
- Teach you a lesson.

We're in this together.

When we get ready to move,
it's gonna take the both of us.

Now, lf he had any ideas
of letting you go, they're all gone now.

A QM production.

Starring David Janssen
as Dr. Richard Kimble.

An innocent victim of blind justice,

falsely convicted
for the m*rder of his wife,

reprieved by fate
when a train wreck freed him

en route to the death house.

Freed him to hide
in lonely desperation,

to change his identity,
to toil at many jobs.

Freed him to search
for a one-armed man

he saw leave
the scene of the crime.

Freed him to run
before the relentless pursuit

of the police lieutenant
obsessed with his capture.

The guest stars in tonight's story:

James Farentino,

Percy Rodriguez.

Wyler City, a rugged frontier town

in the mining country
of Northern Montana.

To the ordinary man,

a place where he can test himself
against the harsh demands of nature.

To the fugitive, a corridor of danger.

- Yes, sir? What can I do for you?
- I’d like to buy a bus ticket.

Here, Laurence.

Yes, sir?
Now, where would you like to go?

I'd like a ticket to Helena.
One way, please.

One way?
A round trip's only $ more.

- I only wanna go one way.
- One way.

Helena.

One way to Helena.

That'll be $ . .

- Say, how about a haircut?
- No, thanks.

- When does the bus leave?
- Two o’clock tomorrow afternoon.

I thought there was a bus
this evening.

There is.

Only, it's miles out of Holliston
with a broken rear axle.

I told them that bus needed
new shocks.

Offered to sell them a set myself
at off.

But, no, they had to do things
their own way.

Is there any other way
to get to Helena this evening?

Well, outside of walking,
I don't see what's to be done about it.

I'll tell you what.

You take this little note
to my brother, Sam McGinnis.

He runs the Wyler inn.

Now, he'll see to it
that you get a good room at off.

Won't cost you more
than or dollars.

You'll be all rested up
for the trip tomorrow.

Hey, now you got the time,
how about a haircut?

Half a dollar off on Fridays.

No, thanks.

Hey, you! Hold it!

Hold it, mister!

All right, get up against that post.

Come on, stretch out.

Freeze, mister.

- What are you working on?
- What else would it be?

Well, you can put it away.

Well, it's a m*rder case, remember?

I'm willing to go to court
and swear that Old Man Gamion

never had an enemy
from the day he was born.

He didn't, but it was still m*rder.
Or I guess you could call it that.

- You know something else I don't?
- Coroner finished the autopsy.

I know. That was a waste of time.

A b*llet through the head kills,
or did they teach me wrong?

Oh, the b*llet k*lled him, all right.
John Gamion did it.

- His own brother?
- Mm-hm.

Oh, come on. Those two old men have
been living in that same cabin together

for the past years.

I've never seen two men
more devoted.

That's right. I was down at the hospital
this afternoon,

had a chat with
Old Man Gamion's doctor.

Gamion was dying. John knew it.

Just couldn’t stand
to see his brother suffer anymore.

- Guess I better go pick him up, huh?
- No need.

He'll be down by himself
in the morning.

You have a man
you want me to see.

Yeah, yeah.
He's in there with Webster.

Okay.

- Web.
- Hi, Emery.

Web, I think Kline needs some help
with that new Cedar Glen report.

I'd like to know
what I'm being charged with.

What would you prefer?

That isn’t funny.

We're not charging you
with anything yet.

Just holding you for questioning.

And we have a right to your services
for two more hours.

I, uh...

I haven't heard any questions.

Green pickup truck
was reported stolen.

Belonged to a farmer named Prewit.

He got a look at the man,

and from the description he gave us,
fits you.

I've only been in town a couple of
hours. I bought a bus ticket to Helena.

Then why did you run
when the officers stopped you?

I only had $ in my pocket,
no visible means of supporting.

Don't look or talk like a vagrant.

- Prewit here yet?
MAN: Yes. He just got in.

Send him in, will you?

What did you say your name was?

- Uh, Barrett. Thomas Barrett.
- Thomas Barrett. Mm.

Prewit.

Stand up, Barrett.

Prewit, Mr. Barrett.

- That ain't the man.
- You sure about that?

He not only ain't the right
one, he ain't even the wrong one.

I told the officers
what that man looked like.

- He don't look anything like him.
- Thank you, Mr. Prewit.

- Can I go now?
- No, not yet.

You arrested me. You held me here.

Now your witness came in,
and he couldn’t identify me.

Now I’d like to leave.

The officers made a mistake,
Mr. Barrett.

All we can do about that
is apologize.

But you resisted arrest.

All right. That's my mistake.
We're even.

Resisting arrest isn’t a mistake,
it's a criminal offense.

Especially the way I heard you did it.
A regular one-man g*ng.

All right.

I'd like to see a lawyer.

Well, Jack Clayton’s
on a case in Helena,

and Ty Richardson's laid up
with the flu.

Very helpful.

Look, why don't you relax,
get a good night's sleep?

Web, Mr. Barrett
will be staying the night.

Give him the first cell on the right-hand
side, the one with the new mattress.

Send out for anything he wants to eat,
on the house.

Anything else you want, just holler.

Mr. Barrett.

Kline, check Barrett against whatever
wanted posters we've got lying around.

That's a pretty good mattress.

I sleep on it sometimes
when I work late.

Anything special
you want for dinner?

Welcome to the Sunny Palms Hotel.

You here on the monthly
or yearly rate?

Just overnight.

Well, what'd you do wrong?

- I resisted arrest.
- Mm.

- What would they arrest you for?
- For looking like someone.

That's a bad policy.

Here Catch.

Pecan candy.

- Thank you.
- Don't mention it.

You eat that hash
they haul up from Shipley’s,

you won't live long enough
to get to trial.

Say, who was it
the boys had you confused with?

Someone who stole a pickup.

Only reason I ask is that

it seems to me
you look like somebody I seen once.

Somebody I read about in a detective
magazine. it's a hobby of mine.

I like to read up
on what makes people become K*llers.

You look like this guy who k*lled
his wife back East somewhere.

Never been married.

Well, that's the problems
you run into, I guess.

Having a familiar face.

You take my brother, Harry Joe,
for example.

Anytime he strays from home territory,
he's getting picked up

for anything from chicken thieving
to armed mayhem.

Which ain't to say he never done
all those things.

Morning, Matt.

What'd you do,
sleep here last night?

Easier to get to work.

That's very humorous.

I wish I was in more of a mood
for humor.

I wish I didn't have to hear,
at : on a Saturday morning,

that my chief deputy is holding
a cleared prisoner incommunicado.

Well, he wasn't cleared
of resisting arrest.

Now, you read the report.
It was like he was fighting for his life.

I could make out a case
for assaulting an officer.

If that's what you're holding him on,

why didn't you bring him into the court
this morning for arraignment?

Because arraignment means ball.

This is the procedure.

Oh, lf he gets out on ball, Matt,
that's the last you'll ever see of him.

On a misdemeanor?
He's gotta have rocks in his head.

Not lf there's something bigger
out on him.

Such as?

Oh, I don't know yet.

Nothing on him here. He's cleared.

Checked him out.

But I just got a feeling about him.

You've got a feeling?

What are you, a poet?

You're a cop, and there's a book of
procedure you're supposed to follow.

Matt, lf there isn’t something big out
on him, I’ll buy you a new hunting hat.

How are you going to hold him
past this afternoon's arraignment?

There won't be any arraignment. I'm
taking him to Helena for identification.

Well, you must be out of your mind.

You've got an assignment
in Deer Lodge, remember?

- I remember.
- Do you?

This isn’t a possum hunt
you're going on.

- I'm talking about Rafe Carter.
- I know who he is.

I'm going through Helena anyway.

If there's nothing on Barrett,
well, I’ll...

I'll just let him go.

Carter's a k*ller,
and you're taking him to hang.

You and that kid deputy who's never
fired a g*n off at the practice range.

That's more than enough,
and he's a good man.

It isn’t enough.
If I didn't have the whole county

to worry about,
I'd send the whole squad with you.

If anybody's planning trouble,

they'll expect me to take
the main highway.

I'll go the back road
in the old pickup truck.

Well, you think that way
will be safer?

Do you know
what those mountains are like?

I've been through there
a hundred times.

And I grew up around
mountain people. You know that.

You were just a boy.

You're a man now,
with a sheriff's badge on your shirt.

You mean I'm a black man
with a badge.

Look, they wouldn’t care
if you were green with orange stripes.

You're wearing a badge,
and that's all Carter's friends need.

Relax.
I know what I can handle, Matt.

I'm sorry, Dalton.
You have to take Carter,

but you can't take Barrett.

Now, Matt...

All right.

Let him go.

And when it turns out you let
a wanted man loose, you can explain.

All right.

If you think you got something,
go ahead, take him with you.

- Thanks, Matt.
- Don't thank me now.

Wait until you get back
from Deer Lodge.

If you make it there.

I'm taking the two men in.

- Time to go.
KIMBLE: To the courthouse?

- Police station in Helena.
- Why there?

That's where you were headed,
wasn't it?

I have a bus ticket,
if it's all the same to you.

It isn’t.

Well, lookie, lookie, lookie.

Wyler’s one-man minstrel show.

On your feet.

Why?

You can shine my shoes
sitting down.

- Get on your feet. You're moving out.
- Who's gonna take me?

- You?
- Want me to get him up, sergeant?

No, he'll get up by himself.

You're going through
Rafe Carter's country.

I'd think about that, boy.

Dalton.

You run into any trouble,
you use that radio.

Don't be a hero.

Yeah.

You ever k*ll anyone?

- I said, you ever k*ll anyone?
- No.

I have.

I k*lled two they know about,
and two more they don't.

But they was all people
who had a mind to stop me

from doing what I was aiming to do.

I'm not telling you my life story
to entertain you

on our little ride to Helena.

If we get to Helena, they're gonna
hang you as dead as they hang me.

Ain't that right, Dr. Kimble?

I don't know
what you're talking about.

Sure.

You go on saying that
for the public record.

I'm not going to Helena.

And that means
you're not going either.

And if that means
that we're gonna have to add

a couple more to that score
I was telling you about,

well, we're gonna do just that.

You and me.

- What's up?
- Gauge shows three-quarters empty.

It was full when we left.

Gas t*nk's leaking.

Well, let me see what I can do.

Like I tried to tell you, deputy,

ain't hardly anybody in these parts
not a relative of mine.

Wouldn’t surprise me a bit

if a few of them
weren't behind those rocks,

or those bushes over there.

Well, that ought to hold it
for a while.

- Oh, my turn. I’ll drive.
- Okay.

What's on your mind?

But for the grace of God and you,
that could be me back there.

Or me.

But if you didn't take me in tow
when I was a kid...

All right, son.
Just keep your eye on the road now.

That Carter sure got a lot of hate.

Haven't we all?

Doesn't that bother you?

Sometimes it does,
sometimes it don't.

Here they come.

He's gone.

Unit calling Headquarters.

Unit calling Headquarters.

Unit calling Headquarters.

You take it easy, son.

I'll be back as soon as I can.

It's a mille to the river.

Once we get past that, it's another mille
to my cousin Tyler’s place.

He's gone.

No.

He ain't gone.

I'd get.

We lost him.

I'll take care of yours
when we got more time.

Come on, let's go.

Get over there.

- You better let me take a look at him.
- Stay where you are.

I've had experience
with this sort of thing.

What experience?

Medic in the Army.

He's dead.

Pick him up.

Put him in the cab of the truck.

Put him in there.

Can I take care of that leg for you?

All right, let's move.

What are you gonna do,
march us to Helena?

That's right.

One of those b*ll*ts
must've bounced off your thick skull.

Helena’s miles
You'll drop dead before we get ten.

You walk much on that leg,
you'll wind up losing it.

Thanks for the advice.
Now, let's walk.

You know, we had a big old dog once.
Used to sleep with us, eat with us.

It lived with human beings so long,

pretty soon it began to think
it was human itself.

Would you shut up?

Man, you're losing
your sense of humor.

Hold it.

Hey, that's Big Ben Wilson.
He's got a mighty big mouth.

Oh, word's gonna start spreading.

Up there. Get walking.

We're gonna have to stop, Dalton.

Not now.

Forget him. He'll be dead soon.

Is the water contaminated?

Where does that creek come from?

Spring or run-off water?

I forgot.

Is it contaminated?

Well, there's one way to find out.

We need the water.

He needs it worse than we do.

I know what water to drink. He don't.

Might give you a bad bellyache.

Ain't that right, boy?

That's the Benson place, isn’t it?

That's right, boy.

All right, let's get moving.

That's Laura Benson's house,
widow of my friend Tom.

We're gonna be all right now.

You just be ready to move
when I do.

Your move.

Oh, boy.

Tom, take your sister in the kitchen
and close the door.

Move.

Excuse the intrusion, ma'am.

Who are you? What do you want?

Chief Deputy Emery Dalton,
Wyler County Sheriff's Office.

- Do you have a telephone here?
- No, we don't.

- Do you have an automobile?
- No. We're poor people, mister.

I'm on my way to Helena
with these two prisoners.

Had an accident back on the road,
and one of my officers was k*lled.

I have to ask you
to put us up for the night,

until we can get back
on the road again.

I'm a widow,
and there's two children in this house.

It ain't right
to bring criminals in here.

They won't be troubling you any.

You have my word.

All right. Come on in.

I'll see if I can find you something
to eat and drink.

I'm grateful, ma'am.

This way.

Are you a bank robber?

Don't ask foolish questions.
Take your sister and go to bed now.

- it's too early for bedtime, Ma.
- You do what I say.

Get your sister and go on to bed.
Do you hear me?

Can I help, ma'am?

Well, you can get the cups
out of that cupboard.

- it's hot tea and whiskey.
- Thank you.

I don't like to see a man in chains,
no matter what he done.

And I don't like to see a man
accepting my hospitality with one hand

and holding a shotgun in the other.

- Sorry, ma'am.
- What was it they done wrong?

Enough that I should keep holding
this shotgun.

I appreciate what you're doing.
I want you to know that.

Well, I’ll appreciate it
when you're gone tomorrow.

You can use the couch and the chairs
to sleep in.

I gotta go see to my children.

You know, back in Wyler,
I was sure I had myself a wanted man.

Oh, I'm still sure.

Don't mean I got anything
against you personally.

That's nice to hear.

I find out I was wrong about you, l...

Well, you have my apology
in advance.

- Apologies are easy.
DALTON: Not for me.

Haven't apologized to anybody
for anything since I put on a badge.

That badge means a lot to you,
does it?

Mm-hm. it does.

That g*n means more to him.

Because lf he didn't have it,

he'd be rotting away
in some ditch right now.

Shut up.

You got the g*n.

What do you do?

- For a living, I mean.
- Um, mechanic, mostly.

- You have a wife?
- I used to.

Women have a place in a man's life,
but they don't tell him what he is.

A man's work,
that tells him what he is.

Why is it so important for you
to get me to Helena?

- Find out who you are.
- I told you who I was.

Thomas Barrett.

- Who'd you k*ll, Barrett?
- I didn't k*ll anybody.

Well, now, why don't you ask me?

You know something about him?

No.

I just felt kind of left out.

I thought maybe
you forgot all about me.

Not a chance.

Got some more friends out there,
Carter?

I don't know
what you're talking about.

Get up.

Come on.

Sit down. You, over here. Come on.

What's happening, Rafe?
Why are they taking you away?

Who is this man?

Forget him, Laura.
This ain't your trouble.

I'm not prying, Rafe.

It's that it hurts me
to see you like this.

You're a good woman, Laura.

I don't wanna bring my troubles
down around your head. l...

I wish...

- Rafe.
- Pay him no mind.

I gotta say what I feel.
I don't have much time.

I wish I’d been able
to give you something.

I wish I was...

I wish I was able to tell you
what I felt for you before.

- Why didn't you?
- What for?

Sooner or later,
it would’ve come to the same end.

They tried to take
my mama's land away.

The acre and a half she had
for years down at Creek's End.

Tried to sh**t me down like a dog.

I k*lled the man who tried to k*ll me,
and they--

Now they wanna hang me.

No.

There must be something
I can do, Rafe.

- Tell me what to do.
CARTER: lf Tom were here, l--

Tom's been dead three years.

Tom was my friend, but all my life,
I wished I was in his place.

Set me free, Laura.
I'll come back for you.

We'll go off together somewhere
I can hold you close in peace.

Just set me free.

Very touching.

Nothing out there but an old bobcat

must've wandered down
from the mountain.

What were you telling her?

What a noble and persecuted hero
you were?

Well, that doesn't matter.

Where you're going, it don't matter
what kind of stories you'll be telling.

- No.
- Sorry, ma'am.

He's a k*ller.

k*lled a man and a girl
for no good reason,

except maybe
they said something wrong to him.

Go on, tell her, Carter.

Tell her what kind of man you are,

the kind of courage it takes
to k*ll a -year-oId girl.

Get out, Laura.

Get out!

You think you've won?
You're finished, Dalton.

You're wounded,
and it's getting worse.

Everywhere you go
in these mountains,

every man's hand
will be turned against you.

You're gonna die, Dalton.

And I'm gonna be free.

Are you getting tired, deputy?

Oh, Helena’s only about miles

- Might as well be , for you.
- Come on.

When did you become
a buddy of his?

Dalton,
you got a real prize package here.

This here is Richard Kimble,
the man who k*lled his wife.

Get moving.

- What was the point of that?
- Teach you a lesson.

We're in this together.

When we get ready to move,
it's gonna take the both of us.

Now, lf he had any ideas
of letting you go, they're all gone now.

Look at him.

Two nights with no sleep.

Now, all we want are the keys

and to get out of here.

Dalton means nothing to us, right?

- Carter?
- I heard you.

Now, take the g*n off. Easy.

Throw it over there.

Get the keys.

Finish him.

I said finish him!

Get up.

Get out of here.

Go on.

Carter!

Carter, we're free.
Come on, let's get out of here.

Nobody puts me in chains,
especially him.

Now get out of here,
or I’ll put a hole in your gut.

Dalton!

Well, well, well.

We've come a long way,
haven't we?

I've come a long way to get free,
and you've come a long way to die.

You know how many men
I k*lled? Four.

And not a deputy among them,
because I don't mess with dirt.

But you're something special.

Yes, sir, you surely are.

Carter.

I can't let you go, Kimble.

I'm not going with you.

I'll tell them
you saved a lawman's life.

That's not gonna do me any good.
You know that.

Gotta take you in.

But after that, I’ll help you.

- I promise.
- I never k*lled anybody.

Maybe you didn't,
but I can't give you a new trial here.

Well, that's why I can't go with you.

Can't let you go, Kimble.

I can't.

A man can do anything
he wants to do.

I'm a lawman,
and lf I let you go, I'm nothing.

All right, lf sh**ting me
makes you somebody,

that's what you're gonna have to do.

You're gonna have to sh**t me.

Kimble.

Kimble!

- Well, hi, Emery.
- Hi, John.

Oh, Emery, here's our report
on the Gamion case.

I'll take care of it later.

Too bad about Lockett.

Yeah. Sheriff in?

Yeah, I have
the report in front of me right now.

By wire from Helena.

Oh, and he's just come into
the office this minute,

so I better hang up.
So long, George.

- Welcome home.
- Thanks.

What happened?

You got the report.

Yes, I read the report.

But I wanna know
what happened to you.

It's all in there.
I wrote it down the way it happened.

Emery.

Wait a minute, Emery.

Are you doing this
because Kimble got away?

You want a better reason?

- I want a good reason.
- He's a m*rder*r.

Who saved your life.

- When that report reaches--
- That report isn’t going anywhere.

It was addressed to the sheriff
of Wyler County, Montana,

and that's me and no one else.

You don't understand, do you?
You just don't understand.

I'm supposed to be a cop,
and I let a m*rder*r go.

Is that what the report says?

That isn’t the way I read it.

The way I read it:

Under conditions of extreme duress,
with your own life in danger,

one of your two prisoners got away.

I've been sheriff for years.
I ought to know how to read a report.

- What are you trying to do?
- I'm trying to tell you something.

I'm trying to tell you
that you're more than a cop.

You're the best man I know.

And good men are hard to find.

A fugitive's life
is not measured in years.

It is measured in moments won,
a day gained.

Richard Kimble
has won another day.

Tomorrow, he must win it
all over again.